Suite violence: Why managers murder and corporations kill

Crime, Law and Social Change

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 243-280

  Punch, Maurice ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

^b LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 0034345572     PISSN: 09254994     EISSN: 15730751     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1008306819319     Document Type: Article

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